Chat on public access Internet

[Walter W. Giesbrecht]

I've had occasion to ask people using chat to relinquish their 
workstations, but only when someone wanted to use the catalogue, and 
all other workstations were busy. Otherwise, I let them do what they 
want. I've *almost* had to stop someone from visiting an "adult" site 
on a public workstation (which I can do because we have a 
university-wide policy about this sort of thing), but the person 
ended the session before any graphics were displayed. A 
colleague disagrees vehemently with me letting people use chat on 
otherwise unused public workstations, but I can't see how I can stop 
them, *if* the workstation is not needed for catalogue access. 

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Walter W. Giesbrecht                        walterg at yorku.ca    
York University Libraries          (416) 736-5639 ext. 77551
North York, Ontario, Canada